Quotes about Leadership
He quickly called his armor-bearer, saying, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” So Abimelech’s armor-bearer ran his sword through him, and he died.
- Judges 9:54
And when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.
- Judges 9:55
After the time of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose up to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim.
- Judges 10:1
Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
- Judges 10:3
And the rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Whoever will launch the attack against the Ammonites will be the head of all who live in Gilead.”
- Judges 10:18
“Come,” they said, “be our commander, so that we can fight against the Ammonites.”
- Judges 11:6
Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
- Judges 11:7
They answered Jephthah, “This is why we now turn to you, that you may go with us, fight the Ammonites, and become leader over all of us who live in Gilead.”
- Judges 11:8
But Jephthah asked them, “If you take me back to fight the Ammonites and the LORD gives them to me, will I really be your leader?”
- Judges 11:9
Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, then through Mizpah of Gilead. And from there he advanced against the Ammonites.
- Judges 11:29
Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.
- Judges 12:7
After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
- Judges 12:8